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Get Ready to Write: A Beginning Writing Text [Paperback]

Karen Lourie Blanchard (Author), Christine Baker Root (Author)


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0201695170 978-0201695175 June 1998
Beginning Level Good writing is a network of skills that can be taught, practiced, and mastered. The Longman Writing Skills series present paragraph development and composition skills in clear, teachable steps. Each book offers students dependable strategies as well as opportunities to bring their own ideas and talent to the writing process. Get Ready to Write introduces students to the fundamentals of effective writing. Students will progress from writing sentences to guided paragraphs, learn to apply organizational principles to the writing process, and at the end of the course, assemble their personal pieces into an autobiography. Other books in the series: Ready to Write (High-Beginning/Low-Intermediate Level) and Ready to Write More (Intermediate/High-Intermediate Level).


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Set your students on the right course with the second edition of Get Ready to Write, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root. With its student-centered approach, this edition teaches beginning students the basic composition skills required for good writing and helps them to become confident and independent writers.

 

Features

  • Model paragraphs that illustrate organizing elements such as topic sentences, supporting details, and signal words
  • Guided practice in writing sentences and paragraphs
  • New Real Life Writing tasks provide relevant writing contexts
  • Editing exercises that help students develop accuracy
  • New Appendices: the English alphabet, penmanship, punctuation rules, and irregular verbs.

 

The Ready to Write series also includes Ready to Write and Ready to Write More.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 107 pages
  • Publisher: Longman Pub Group (June 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0201695170
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201695175
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,446,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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